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Call for demonstration in Paris on third anniversary of coup
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Publisher:  Reporters without Borders
Date Written:  25/06/2012
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

Defending human rights and exercising the right to impart or receive news and information can get you killed nowadays in Honduras. The favourite targets include NGO and union representatives, civil society activists

Abstract:  Three years have passed since President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster in a coup d’état on 28 June 2009, which not only overturned democratic institutions and an electoral result but also led to a collapse in respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in a country already known for one of the highest levels of violent crime in the world.

Someone is shot dead every 74 minutes in Honduras. This statistic unfortunately diverts attention from the scale of the permanent political violence, whi...
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